The apartment in New York where Jean-Michel Basquiat lived is for rent

In 1983, the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat rented an apartment and studio space in New York from the protagonist of the pop art movement, Andy Warhol, his friend and mentor.

Basquiat continued to live and work at the Bowery property until his death in 1988, aged just 27.

Now, art lovers have the opportunity to rent the three-story building if they can spare $60,000 a month.

The New York apartment where Jean-Michel Basquiat lived and worked for the last five years of his life has hit the rental market for $60,000 a month, as demand for the late artist’s work continues to rise as well. https://t.co/VPsKIseEj8 pic.twitter.com/fGC6uPaVg9

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The property is located at 57 Great Jones Street and is available for lease from Meridian Capital Group. The estate agency describes the top floor as an “open loft”. The ground floor recently housed the Japanese restaurant Bohemian.

“Outside the building, a plaque placed by the Greenwich Village Historic Preservation Society commemorates its late tenant: ‘Famous artist Jean-Michel Basquiat lived and worked here, on property owned by friend and mentor Andy Warhol.’ .

“Basquiat’s paintings and other works challenged established notions of high and low art, race and class, while forging an insightful language that defied labelling,” says the estate agency.

Born in Brooklyn, Basquiat began his career as a street art artist as one half of the duo behind the pseudonym SAMO and remains one of the most beloved artists of the 1970s and 1980s. While he died at the age of 27, he created approx. 600 paintings and 1,500 drawings in his short career.

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